Louise Driver is currently the Intellectual Property Escalations Manager at Facebook. With over thirteen years of experience in her career, beginning at the age of 19 when Louise started her own business in the Hair and Beauty industry. At 25 she began her career transition working in companies such as Apple, Amazon and currently, Facebook.
 
Coming from a diverse background Fraud, Sales, Customer Support and IP. In the last number of years Louise is best known for her expertise in leading and growing teams at scale, managing new business functions, mentoring peers and solving complex issues. In an average day, Louise is responsible for managing a team within Facebook’s Global Intellectual Property Escalations team. Louise sets goals, works to improve the overall internal escalations experience for the Facebook/Instagram community and also works to deliver projects and implement solutions to meet community needs including working with partners within various cross-functional teams to drive priorities.
 
Louise enjoys optimizing processes, solving challenging problems and most importantly, helping to prevent issues from reoccurring in the future. Louise has focused on evolving her career and herself throughout the years studying Contact Centre management, Women in Leadership and Executive presence as well as leading and participating in various other courses and currently, Louise is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Law through the Open University.
In the coming years, Louise hopes to transition from her role into that of the Director or Vice President.  She attributes her success to learning from previous mistakes, learning from others, driving her own career development including studying and being prepared to find and take on new challenges. Louise is looking forward to networking and connecting with other like-minded professionals, and to gaining the recognition and credibility of being a member of WWA.
 
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As Vice President of Operations for ENGIE Energía Perú S.A., Felisa Ros is a top female executive and leader in her field. Having been in her current role for the past two years, she has over 20 years of experience in the energy sector and in management, and oversees all operations, health and safety, environment, logistics, supply chain and best practices for the company. The firm is on the forefront of the energy sector, focusing on renewable energy, energy efficiency, natural gas and digitization, and she is proud to help lead a cutting-edge firm in such a rapidly evolving and important industry. Felisa provides the overall management direction to the firm’s power plants in Peru, and also ensures all regulatory compliance, guiding the plant managers and serving as the company’s legal interface.
 
Having always enjoyed a passion for physics and mathematics, Felisa earned a degree in Civil Engineering from the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura Universidad Nacional de Rosario. She later went on to earn a Master of Business Administration from Phoenix University. Her certifications are vast, and she received scholarships to study and train in Environmental Education Improvement at McGill University in Canada, and in natural gas at SOGESTA S.p.A. (Grupo ENI) in Italy.
 
Prior to joining Engie Energía Perú, she served as VP Generation – ERCOT for Engie Generation NA (formerly GDF Suez Energy North America, Inc.), where she reported directly to the company’s President and CEO. While there, she was recognized with a special award for her Achievement of the Innovation Trophy 2012 in the category of Support Activities, with the project “CTLC, a new way to organize certain purchases” (CTLC: Common Tenders for Local Contracts).
 
Felisa is a key player in Engie’s Leadership and Gender Equality Initiatives. Throughout Felisa’s impressive career, her work has taken her across Peru, Argentina, Mexico and the United States.
 
A native of Argentina, Felisa speaks fluent English and Spanish. In her spare time, she enjoys travel and skiing, and is an avid reader. She also serves as a valuable mentor to up and coming engineering professionals and women executives, and credits her success to having a positive attitude and truly enjoying the field she has chosen.
 
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Liane Zabel is the owner of Beautiful Permanent Make-Up, Inc., a cosmetic tattoo company specializing in Sapphire-Blading (a special eyebrow microblading method), plasma cosmetic (a special method for eyelid lifting and wrinkle reducing) and Tattoo removal training with the non-laser SKINIAL method.
 
With over 40 years of experience in her career, Liane is best known for her expertise in microblading, training, plasma cosmetics and anti-aging treatments.
 
In addition to running Beautiful Permanent Make Up, Inc., Liane is an Independent Consultant for Dr.Juchheim Effect Cosmetics – Body Care & Body Forming products. She finds great pleasure in working with her clients and helping them to achieve the results they have dreamed of, and is passionate about making others not only look, but feel beautiful.
 
Having attended the Academy of Skilled Crafts, earning a Master Craftsman Certificate in Hairstyling and Makeup 1986, Liane trained in Germany to become a permanent makeup artist in 1992. She spent 15 years as the owner of Salon Liane, an international brand of high-end salons located in Germany and the Canary Islands, before relocating to Canada.
 
Today, she provides services to clients from across North America and Europe, and is dedicated to making permanent beauty treatments increasingly accessible to the middle class. She continues to train other health and beauty professionals, and is always working to expand and broaden her own skill set. She speaks fluent English and German. Outside of her professional endeavors, Liane enjoys traveling and is an avid reader.
 
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With over 18 years of engineering experience to her credit, Karla Basile Rocha is a highly skilled chemical and design engineer based in Brazil. Currently, she is Smart Solutions Segment Director of OTZ Engenharia and an Engineering Consultant for Ergossol Soluções Tecnológicas. She is specialized mostly in the oil and gas Industry (both onshore and offshore), but also has high knowledge about the chemical, petrochemical and energy sector, as well as a considerably high background as Senior Engineering Manager for recognized companies having led multidisciplinary teams with more than 200 professionals.
 
For OTZ Engenharia, Karla promotes and develops new business opportunities, focusing on the technology behind tomorrow´s Smart Cities and promoting solutions involving technology for connected and sustainable cities, based on cloud technology and IoT as the backbone infrastructure for more sustainable cities in the future. For Ergossol Soluções Tecnológicas, Karla offers technical support in the Facilities area for Offshore and Onshore Installations, besides Energy Industry, technically evaluating projects and the integrity of existing assets.
 
Karla also frequently speaks about new business with a focus on technological solutions working with design engineering networks, and strategic planning. She manages projects for refineries and is excited by the prospect of potentially conducting such projects on an international scale.
 
She has been featured in the media discussing women’s issues in the workforce and women’s empowerment and was awarded with and Honor of Participation. “It is very important for women to believe that they can have a vision. Most women do not allow themselves to think that,” says Karla, who, besides being a successful professional in her area is a mother of 2 small kids (a boy and a girl) and uses that as a fuel to fight for a better position to women in the future. “Juggling motherhood with a demanding career has been helped by an optimistic, problem-solving disposition and with a way high ability to get through things even when they feel impossible.”
 
Having earned her degree from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Karla went on to complete postgraduate studies in Offshore Process Safety and Offshore Automation and Instrumentation Projects from the Instituto SENAI de Educação Superior and conducted by Petrobras (Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.) specialized personnel, and Safety Applied to Oil Exploration and Production Projects from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ/ COPPE/ SAPEP).
 
Looking ahead, Karla wants to create a business strategy to align with IT goals but also generates a technology investment roadmap that will guide her company through various strategies to maintain and grow her team and processes. She is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish, and credits her success to perseverance, hard work, focus and commitment. Having a passion for coaching the younger generation, she says that “As leaders we are not responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating that for the next generations. Our success multiplies each time we lead someone else to success. That is a very great full aspect of being a leader.”
 
Worldwide Women’s Association Member Karla Basile Rocha can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
 

 
Dr. Carolina Schiappacasse is the CEO and Medical Director of Clinica de Rehabilitacion LAS ARAUCARIAS, a leading Argentinean medical and physical rehabilitation center. A renowned expert in physical medicine, Dr. Schiappacasse is a specialist in amputations both for adults and children and also treats stroke, TBI and SCI patients, and others suffering from a variety of other physical conditions. Having also established and founded the clinic, today Dr. Schiappacasse oversees a rotating staff of 150 doctors and nurses and other presonnel.
 
With a background in the public health sector, Dr. Schiappacasse earned her medical degree in Rehabilitation from Buenos Aires University, class of 1982. She is a PRM Specialist from the University, and holds diplomas from the Public Ministry of health and SAMFYR, respectively. She also served as a Fellow at the Rehabilitation Department of the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires training in amputees and diabetic foot, and completed postgraduate studies in Health Management under the Health Ministry of Buenos Aires Government.
 
Beyond practicing medicine and running large scale health clinics, Dr. Schiappacasse is an experienced teacher, having taught courses at the University of Buenos Aires, National Rehabilitation Institute and the Prosthetics school of San Martín University. Her professional affiliations are vast, and in addition to her lifetime membership in the WWA include memberships in the Sociedad Argentina de Medicina Física y Rehabilitación—Argentinean PMR, the Argentinean Diabetic Foot Society, co-founding member of the International Society for Prosthesis and Orthotics, founder of the Argentinean Amputees Society, co-founder of the NGO Amputees Without Frontiers, member of the Certification and Recertification Committee in PMR for the Argentine Medical Association, member of the Normalizing Subcommittee for the Categorization of levels of care in PMR, and a Member of Ethical and Honor Board for PMR.
 
For the great contributions to her field and beneficial effects her work has had on her patients’ lives, Dr. Schiappacasse has been recognized with numerous awards, including the José M. Jorge Award from the National Academy of Medicine (1987, 1996), Merit award by the SMTBA (2009), Merit award for over 20 years in PMR by SAMFYR (2010), National Academy Award from the National Academy of Medicine (2010), and a Certificate of Recognition for her dedicated service and contributions of exceptional merit to the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics and the worldwide prosthetics and orthotics community (2010).
 
Dr. Schiappacasse travels the world to attend conferences and speak on topics of rehabilitation and amputation. She is a mentor and role model to women in medicine and entrepreneurship, and hopes to increase the accessibility of medicine to those who may not be able to afford it. She speaks fluent English and Spanish, and outside of running her busy medical practice enjoys traveling and reading.
 
Worldwide Women’s Association Member Carolina Schiappacasse can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.